Police were called to the Port of Ramsgate at 5am on Sunday May 1 amid concerns for the welfare of a girl, and Becky’s body was recovered two-and-a-half miles away.

Prosecutor Simon Taylor told Maidstone Crown Court that the pair had met the night before at a birthday party before ending up at the Harbour Arm in Ramsgate.

Mr Taylor said: “By the basis of plea, Mr Bowditch accepts that, although he cannot say exactly how Becky Morgan came to fall into the sea, once she fell in he failed to take any steps to try to assist her.

The judge told him: “You did not try in any way to help a drowning girl – not by throwing her a life buoy, not by going to her aid as some would have done, not by calling for help, not by contacting the rescue or emergency services.

“In other words, you left her to drown.”

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